Famous quotes containing the words victor hugo, victor, hugo and/or paris:
“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to history, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)